By Rachel Silver Maddock In the Italian folk dance the polka chinata, two men embrace, bending their knees and spinning in circles low to the ground. The Bolognese courtship dance from the early 1900s is difficult, exhausting, and requires hours of training to perfect. “It’s about how to deal with the weight of each other,
By Tessa Perkins Deneault About a year after the members of CAMP became a dance collective in 2019, they moved in together — a decision motivated by the difficulty of finding affordable housing in Vancouver and pandemic restrictions that would have made collaborating difficult. CAMP — Brenna Metzmeier, Eowynn Enquist, Isak Enquist, Ted Littlemore, and
By Kaija Pepper In the pandemic’s first year, along with cities worldwide, Vancouver dance was in a holding pattern. As elsewhere, once the idea of a lockdown became customary practice, companies and individuals quickly moved online with friendly, often home-based digital dance designed to keep artists in contact with their audiences. By 2021, however, these